Bay Area & Namba (7 Nov Wednesday)

We went to the Bay Area this morning, subway station Osakako. As you can see from the pix above, there are many attractions all around. We went to 3: the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, the Tempozan Market Place (for makan) & the Ferris Wheel.

In front of the aquarium.

Christmas decorations are already up.

Taking pictures in the aquarium was difficult, so dark!!! All I want for Christmas is a professional camera and professional skills to go with it ;-) The following pix are those that made the cut...my cut, ha!

The kids spotted the baby penguin, can you?


No kidding, I took this pix.
This is called the Crown of Thorns Starfish, awesome.



The STAR of the aquarium - the whale shark.
A school of fish follows the shark wherever it swims.



Guess what this is? Can eat one...
Anchorvies & Sardines


Papa would love to eat these...
Giant Spider Crabs

Our souvenir pix with the whale shark, Christmas hat and all

After lunch at Tempozan Market Place, we took the Ferris Wheel. 15 minutes one round. Damn scary right at the top because papa shook the carriage PURPOSELY.

Aiya, so sunny!

A view from the top

The ride ended so soon

We took the subway to Namba Station. Most of the subway lines including JR, meet here. There are numerous exits. We went towards the Dotonbori River (Exit 14). There are huge crab and lobster signboards everywhere. We ended at Don Quijote discount store by the promenade. It has 6 or 7 floors of merchandise.

Our boys once found unclaimed candies in one of such toy machines in Singapore and they thought they should try their luck here in Osaka. Just when I was telling them to stop "digging", Ewan fished out a small Elmo and Grover. He was over the moon, telling everybody this was his Lucky Draw...how apt.

One of the crab signboards

Night comes very early, like 6pm?

The kids were actually very tired by then.

In case you haven't noticed, some of the pix have got dates on them. Those are from papa's new camera. I take pictures with our first digital camera. The battery though fully charged the day before will die out on me by mid-day. Some good came out of this though, I learned to use those complicated functions in papa's camera.